Primary Schools
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Olney Infant School - Fronter Champion's Lunchtime Club
UK -One lunchtime per week, 30 Year 2 pupils at Olney Infant School in Milton Keynes have gathered to harness their IT skills by personalising home pages, adding text, graphics, links to websites etc, within their Fronter VLE. For more information on how and what they did, read more here.
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Fronter - the common platform from nursery to secondary school in the municipality of Askim, Norway
Prestenga Nursery has 135 children from age 0 - 6 years, 14 preschool teachers and a total of 38 employees. The children can now follow one single platform from the nursery all the way up to high school, and be familiar with Fronter before they start school. The children at Prestenga will get access to Fronter autumn 2010. The plan is to create a separate children's room with links to online games, activities and other fun stuff for children to engage in. Read more
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Fronter - the common platform from nursery to secondary school in the municipality of Askim, Norway
Korsgård School is the largest school in the Municipality of Askim with over 300 pupils and 45 teachers. The pupils had been looking forward to start using Fronter, and when the pupils themselves had a chance to try Fronter, there was a great fuss. Read more
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Flora and Finlay - The Travelling Bears
South Otterington and Sessay Primary - Primary Implementation Award Winners 2010
UK - Both South Otterington and Sessay Primary were commended for their 'Travelling Bear' projects currently running at their schools. Flora and Finlay travel to partner schools, providing a link for children to start exploring neighbouring schools, cultures and lifestyles.... Read more about Sessay Primary and South Otterington
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Net Books - Taking the Lesson Home
St John Baptist School, Lewisham
UK - St John Baptist School in Lewisham, London, are leading the way in personalised learning. Now in its 3rd year, their net book project has really taken off. It’s given the students aged 8 – 11 responsibility of their own net books- and of their study. Read more
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Implementing a Learning Platform
Sparrow Farm Juniors
UK - At Sparrow Farm Junior School Head teacher, Linda Thomas and Deputy Head, Ardeep Virdi, are very clear why the Fronter MLE is a success. This case study outlines a few of the key initiatives put into place and the vision behind implementation of the learning platform... Read more
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Fronter Snowletter
School Tips and Tricks from the Fronter Team
UK - Thousands of schools across the UK have been forced to close due to the recent snowy weather and icy conditions. But fear not – in this age of 21st century, schools are finding that learning platforms are coming to the rescue – supporting the continuation of learning from the warm and safe comfort of the home... Read more
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Fronter Development at our School
Newhaven Pupil Referral Unit
UK - After management set staff and students a target for the use of Fronter within lessons at Newhaven PRU, a comprehensive program was put together with fantastic results!
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Building a School Community through Fronter
Maadi British International School
Egypt - Located in Cairo, Egypt, students, teachers and parents at the Maadi British International School have been exploring the possibilities of increasing ICT in their teaching and learning, with exciting results... Read more
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Geography Without Borders
Ranvilles Infant School
UK - Ranvilles uses the Fronter learning platform to connect the whole school community involving not only the teachers and children, but parents too. Many of the children’s parents are in the Royal Navy, so the learning platform enables progress tracking and answering questions while they are away onboard ship... Read more
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Parliament Hill Steps Ahead With Fronter
Parliament Hill School
UK - Now at the forefront of ICT in education, the school was one of only 103 from across the country to be selected by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to participate in the Leading Edge Partnership Programme, launched by the Schools Standards Minister, David Milliband on July 1st 2007... Read more
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Children Taking Back Ownership of Their Learning
Coteford Junior School
UK - The process of learning is a life long journey that should be exciting from its start, and the MLE is just one way of opening up new paths for the children to explore... Read more
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An Old School with new Education Methods
Nedre Bekkelaget School
Norway - First built in 1938, Nedre Bekkelaget Skole is an ‘old’ school with very ‘new’ education methods and forward looking ideas on ICT and its role in education... Read more
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Access to 21st Century Learning
St Mary Magdalen’s RC Junior School
UK - The MLE allowed the children to access resources from all over the globe and find pictures of their favourite celebrities. St Mary Magdalen’s has also collaborated with other schools through the London MLE, allowing the children to get to know pupils in other cities and countries... Read more
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Secondary Schools
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Creating a Central Test Library
Manor School
UK - Since the launch of the VLE to the whole school in May 2009 the Test Library has been a core part of the schools strategy to embed the VLE across the school. The database in the Test Library now contains over 3400 questions from every curriculum area in the school... Read more
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A holistic virtual learning environment in a community school
Conisborough College
UK - Objective: To produce a holistic virtual learning environment covering all areas of the curriculum, cross- and extra-curricular activity and reflecting student life. To find out how they went about puttingthis into place... Read more
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Students Show the Way
Cranford Community College
UK - The Cranford Common Room is a shared space for all members of the school community. A hub of activity, the room was handed over to a group of students to look after and manage, giving them the chance to decide what was relevant for their teachers and peers to discuss and learn about together... Read more |
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New Tools – New Opportunities
Blackfen School for Girls
UK - How to personalise learning, improve communication, and make sure that you take advantage of a wide range of resources in your teaching material? – Important questions – and just a few of many that schools across Europe are asking themselves... Read more
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Using Fronter to Enhance Staff ICT Capability
Teddington School
UK - Computers, whiteboards, visualisers, learning platforms.... a typical ‘school classroom’ is rapidly changing shape, and along with this the tools that students and teachers are using to learn and teach together... Read more
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Success for the London MLE
Camden School for Girls
UK - The London MLE in practice at Camden School for Girls (CSG) has proven a successful project that will definitely be continued in the future. Thanks to the summer 2007 pilot program of the new London MLE, CSG has taken the next step in 21st century education... Read more
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Looking into the School in a Completely Different Way
Kastellet School
Norway - Using Fronter for almost 4 years, Kastellet has a strong and established ICT policy at their school, which follows the nationwide trend for increased use of ICT in education... Read more
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London MLE is Key in Federation's 'Gifted and Talented Week'
Crossway's Academy
UK - At the Gifted and Talented Week (G&T), pupils embarked upon a project that would put forward their ideas on what would make an ideal community in terms of a natural, built and social environment in the middle of the 21st century, relating the project to proposed developments in the Thames Gateway... Read more
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Lifelong Learning Through the Fronter Platform
ROC Eindhoven
The Netherlands - A ‘normal’ school day at ROC Eindhoven has taken on a whole new meaning in the last 5 years. New education methods are combined with new e-learning tools, as the Fronter Platform is used to carry out new strategies for Lifelong learning in 23 schools across the ‘Silicon Valley of Europe.’.. Read more
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A Flexible School Day?
Gable Hall School
UK - The Fronter learning platform can be seen here in practise, helping a teacher to further individualise students’ work, not a slogan, a genuine example at work in one of Britain’s schools... Read more
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A New Pedagogical Approach At Stovner
Stovner Upper Secondary School
Norway - 'With 80% of the student body with a minority language background, the school has, in an exceptional way demonstrated, how innovative ways of organising teaching can improve the quality of students` learning. The school has been outstanding in the field of creativity and innovation' ...Read more
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Academies
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Chelsea Academy: Our Virtual School Building
UK - Opening in September 2009, Chelsea Academy started with 162 Year 7 students. With the opportunity to embed the use of the Fronter Learning platform from day 1, teachers, students, parents and governors are already seeing the major impact it has on teaching and learning. Read more.
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Regional Implementation of Fronter
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Implementation of the Fronter Open Learning platform in Oslo Schools
City of Oslo
Norway - In 2003, the City of Oslo Education Agency (UDE) selected the Fronter Open Learning Platform as a common platform for all schools in Oslo. Fronter was selected to fulfil the agency’s strategy to make pedagogic use of ICT available to all students in their daily learning activity... Read more
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The Fronter Platform and Competence Based Education
ROC Eindhoven
The Netherlands - Schools in ROC Eindhoven have been using the Fronter Platform to support their learning for the past 5 years. Over this period of time, the Fronter Platform has become an essential tool to support their educational methodology – Competence Based Education (CGO)... Read more
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